Vinovia, Weondune or Vína The Wear landscape and a site to site Ursa Minor construction anchored at Hexham Abbey and Thornborough henges

We reconsider the proposal first published on 13 September 2020 that the Wear crossing at Vinovia and the landscape towards Hunwick deserve investigation in relation to Vína and Vínheiðr in Egils saga and Weondune in the Durham historical tradition. The naming enquiry includes the reported Veanu flumen, Winwæd, Gaunless and Matthew Paris’s description of the Wear’s two arms. Published linguistic discussion allows an underlying river-name in Vinovia without identifying it as Vína or Veanu. The geographical construction fixes Polaris at Hexham Abbey and Pherkad at northern Thornborough, transferring angles through successive triangles between sites at the comparison epoch AD 70. Epsilon falls 1.87 km from Vinovia and 1.61 km from the retained Hunwick reference. All calculated stations are compared with Roman roads, rivers and recorded sites. We propose that Roman route organisation inherited an older sacred geography while forts occupied convenient nearby ground, and that stories and ritual helped preserve the status of older places. This is a historical interpretation to be tested against archaeology. The geometry neither dates the henges nor establishes a Roman constellation survey or battlefield location.